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The Austrian Culture Forum Ottawa is pleased to announce that scholarships for international students are available for participation in one of their classes at the 2022 Salzburg International Summer Academy which will take place from July 18 to August 27. The deadline for scholarship applications is April 29, 2022.

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies is happy to announce the winners of the 2022 Piller Award.

The Cecilia and Late George Piller Graduate Research Awards were established to support excellent graduate students in the Faculty of Arts doing research into any aspect of German Studies.

The winners, chosen from a set of very strong applications, demonstrate the high calibre of the research into German studies being conducted by graduate students in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo.

WCGS is happy to announce that our Diversity & Inclusion Grants are open for 2022!

Application Deadline Extended to March 4, 2022

To recognize outstanding research by emerging scholars, the Waterloo Centre for German Studies has instituted an annual book prize. 

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies is now accepting applications for the Cecilia and the late George Piller Graduate Research Award.

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies (WCGS) is pleased to announce the shortlist for its annual Book Prize.  

Earlier this year, we accepted applications for our first Diversity and Inclusion Grants, whose purpose is to provide scholars and programs with some financing to support initiatives aimed at improving diversity and inclusion in German studies in Canada. Two upcoming events have received funding from the grant. Click on the event links for more details:

From World War I until the late 1950s, Catholics in Germany reported more instances of stigmata and visions of the Virgin Mary than at any time in modern history. This lecture emphasizes the stigmata of the charismatic Therese Neumann of Bavaria and the Cold War apparitions of the Virgin Mary in the small town of Heroldsbach. Neumann’s story in particular reveals much about the fall of German democracy in the 1920s and the relation of Catholics to the Third Reich.